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- J. H. NEWELL.

WINDMILL REGULATOR.

No. 258,462. Patented May 23, 1882.

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JOHN H. NEWELL, OF SCOTTVILLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T HIMSELF AND ALFRED M. GREEK, OF SAME PLACE.

WlNDMlLL-REGULATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,462, dated May 23, 1882.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN H. NEWELL, of Scottville,in the county of Macoupin and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Windmill-Regulator, of which thetollowingis a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to windmill-pumping apparatus for supplying water for stock; and it consists of afloat in the water-tank, weights,

IO and catch and trip dogs for automatically setting' the wind-wheel to work when the watersupply runs low in the tank, and stopping it when the tank is full. When the water rises to the high level in the tank the float trips a weight that pulls the wind-wheel around into the plane of the tail-vane and stops the pump. The weight is at the same time caught by a catch-dog and held until by the fall of the water to the low level the float trips another weight of greater capacity than the first, that lifts the said first weight to release the wind- "x wheel and allow it to work, and at the same time sets said first mentioned weight by a catch-dog, to be held so that the wheel will continue to run until the water rises again and the float again trips the weight that shifts the wind-wheel, as in the first instance, all as hereinafter more fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying o drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of the water tauk and side elevation of the said apparatus and a portion of the wind-wheel tower,

and Fig. 2 is a perspective view oi the apparatus.

A represents the tower, whereou the windwheel is supposed to be mounted for working 40 the rod B of the pump, the said wheel being of the kind which is stopped .by shifting it around into the plane of the tail vane, in which position the wind has no rotativc effect on the wheel, and which said wheel is set in motion 5 by being released from that position and allowed to assume the working position.

0 represents a cord or wire that is connected to the wind-wheel, as in the common arrangement, for so pulling it out of the wind when said cord is pulled down by the weight D, and

releasing and allowing it to work when said weight'is raised. This weight D is connected to one arm ot'a lever, E, for setting and holding said weight in the different positions and tripping it when it is to be shifted. In Fig.1 the lever is set by the catch-dog M for holding the weight up to allow the wind-wheel to run and work the pump, the water being low in the tank H.

F is a weight larger than D, and resting on the float G in the tank when not suspended on lever E. Weight F has a loop or bail, I, hung over the arm of lever E, next to the catchdogs, and of sufficient length to allow the weight to rise under the lever, when set by catch llI, as high as the weight will be floated by high water without interfering with said lever. The bail works in guide-loops J in the sides of the lever. When the water rises to about the high-water level arm N on thefloat G lifts the longnrmol' catch M and trips lever E, so that weight D falls and pulls down cord U to stop the wind-wheel, as above stated. At the same time the weight D throws up the other end of lever E above catch L, by which 7 it is caught and held, the weight I) being down and the wind-wheel beinginoperative. The ball I of weight F is at this time sufficiently high to allow theleverE to swing above catch L. The water now falls, float G descending, and leav- 8o ing weight F, suspended on lever E; when lowwater mark is reached, trips arm 0 of float G, pulls down the long arm of catch L, tripping lever E, and letting weight F fall; said weight being heavier than D, raises weight D to allow the wind-wheel to work again; and it also sets lever E under latch M, to he held in that position, so that the wheel will continue to work the pump until the tank is fall again.

The catch-dogs are mounted on a standard, 0 K, arranged in the plane of the sweep of lever E, and the said catch-dogs have springs P, that hold them in the positions for keeping the lever E, but which are overborne by the triparms N O for tripping the lever.

Having thus fully described my invention,l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the pullcord (J of a windmill, and weight D suspended thereon, we

ofsetting and trippingleverEfloat G, weight 1 4. The catch and trip dogs L M, arranged 10 F, catch-dogs L M, and tripping-arms N O, I on the vertical standard K, in combination substantially as specified. with the vertically-swinging shifting-lever E 2. The combination of weight F, yoke L, and the float G, said float: having trippers N 5 and float G with the tripping-lever E, substan- O, substantially as specified.

tially as specified. JOHN H. NEWELL.

3. The catch-dogs L M, combined with the YVitnesses: lever E, weight F, float; G, and the trippers N SAMUEL HETTIOK,

0, substantially as specified. JAMES P. CLARK. 

